The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics , 2019
In the sixteenth century, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their villages by Spanish... more In the sixteenth century, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns. Rather than conforming to Spanish cultural and political norms, indigenous Andeans adopted and gradually refashioned the institutions imposed on them, in the process producing a new kind of civil society that merged their traditional understanding of collective life with the Spanish notion of the común to demand participatory democracy. This hybrid concept of self-rule spurred the late eighteenth century revolutionary movements that erupted across Latin America against Spanish rulers and native hereditary nobility. Through the letters and documents of the Andean people themselves, The People are King examines the community-based sovereignty that played a central role in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions and continues to galvanize indigenous movements in Bolivia today.
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars f... more Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging together different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in the first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms 'Rome' developed to hold a grip on the Council's implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.
The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics , 2019
In the sixteenth century, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their villages by Spanish... more In the sixteenth century, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns. Rather than conforming to Spanish cultural and political norms, indigenous Andeans adopted and gradually refashioned the institutions imposed on them, in the process producing a new kind of civil society that merged their traditional understanding of collective life with the Spanish notion of the común to demand participatory democracy. This hybrid concept of self-rule spurred the late eighteenth century revolutionary movements that erupted across Latin America against Spanish rulers and native hereditary nobility. Through the letters and documents of the Andean people themselves, The People are King examines the community-based sovereignty that played a central role in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions and continues to galvanize indigenous movements in Bolivia today.
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars f... more Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging together different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in the first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms 'Rome' developed to hold a grip on the Council's implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.
The People Are King traces the transformation of Andean communities under Inca and Spanish rule. ... more The People Are King traces the transformation of Andean communities under Inca and Spanish rule. The sixteenth-century Spanish resettlement policy known as reducción was pivotal to this transformation. Modeled on the Spanish ideal of república (self-government within planned towns) and shared sovereignty with their monarch, Spaniards in the Viceroyalty of Peru forced Andeans into resettlement towns. Andeans turned the tables on forced resettlement by making the towns their own and the center of their social, political, and religious lives. Andeans made a coherent life for themselves in a complex process of ethnogenesis that blended preconquest ways of life (the ayllu) with the imposed institutions of town life and Christian religious practices. Within these towns, Andeans claimed the right to self-government, and increasingly regarded their native lords, the caciques, as tyrants. A series of microhistorical accounts in these repúblicas reveals that Andeans believed that commoner peo...
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